Leicestershire Police criticise misleading ‘burqa police uniform’ press coverage

September 27, 2016 Article

Leicestershire Police have expressed their ‘disappointment’ at ‘inaccurate’ press coverage of their uniform policy. On September 22, the Sun’s bombastic headline read ‘More burkas on the beat’ in response to claims that Leicestershire Police may allow Muslim officers to wear the burqa. The Sun’s article incorrectly stated that the force “would have to consider”any such

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Man purporting to be Boko Haram leader taunts Nigerian military in video

September 26, 2016 Article

A man purporting to be Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau speaks in this still frame taken from social media video courtesy of SITE Intel Group, released on August 10, 2016, in an unknown location. MANDATORY CREDIT Social Media courtesy of SITE INTEL GROUP/ via REUTERS

The purported leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau appeared in a video posted on social media on Sunday in which he [...]

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Jordanian Writer and Cartoonist Murdered in Broad Daylight by Religious Extremist

September 25, 2016 Article

Jordanian police stand guard in front of a hospital where the body of Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, who was shot dead, was held in Amman, Jordan, September 25, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Few would have known Nahed Hatter who had written on Islamist violence and narratives for decades. A writer who had left Jordan for the Lebanon [...]

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Sister of French militants put under formal investigation

September 24, 2016 Article

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve (L) and Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem attend a news conference to announce security plans for schools, in Paris, France, August 24, 2016. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

The sister of French Islamist militants Fabien and Jean-Michel Clain was put under formal investigation for criminal association in relation to a terrorist undertaking and [...]

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Far Right Nationalist Stickers Found in Stockport

September 22, 2016 Article

We have just had the following reported into us regarding A4 posters and stickers that have been circulated in the Stockport area. The material highlights terminology associated with far right nationalist ideology with one stating: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” This is a direct reference to

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Far Right Nationalist Stickers Found in Stockport

September 22, 2016 Article

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Finland may ban neo-Nazi groups after death of man at far-right protest

September 22, 2016 Article

Members of the neo-Nazi group Suomen Vastarintaliike SVL (Finnish Resistance Movement) march through Helsinki. Credit: YouTube.

Finland may outlaw neo-Nazi groups after an assault at a far-right protest resulted in a man’s death. Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehmainen will raise the prospect of a ban with the prosecutor general’s office, according to Yle news. But days earlier, Kolehmainen had acknowleged that any ban could prove problematic as members could act independently. The

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